Lesson Plans World History II SOL 6b: Absolute Monarchs

Standard WH II:Lesson Plans World History II SOL 6b:The student will demonstrate knowledge of scientific, political, economic, and religious changes during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries by Objectives SOL 6b) describing the Age of Absolutism, including the monarchies of Louis XIV and Peter the Great.

Essential Knowledge:Characteristics of absolute monarchies • Centralization of power • Concept of rule by divine right Absolute monarchs • Louis XIV of France: Palace of Versailles as a symbol of royal power • Peter the Great of Russia: Westernization of Russia